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THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.

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Sunday, September 23, 2007

Posted 4:27 PM by Gene

Speaking of "art", today I passed by a concert in a local park; some band was playing part of William Schuman's New England Triptych. Twenty years ago I might have stopped and listened, but time has gnarled my brain, and I can't stand outdoor music: second-rate music, poorly-played music, music that is little more than shouting at the neighbors, music made worse by a dull note-flattening reverb. Someone once wrote a piece -- I wish I could remember who -- suggesting we have too much music in our lives, that music has become inescapable, a mental burden. When I think of how much rotten music I endure every day that does seem reasonable. It's gotten so I'm even having trouble collecting CDs, the one fitfully relaxing hobby of my life.

Interesting: the Wiki folks say this work was commissioned by André Kostelanetz. Does anyone remember him? He commissioned Copland's Lincoln Portrait too -- and he was the king of cheesy listening.

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